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EsportsYes, Daigo Umehara Is Still Winning Street Fighter Tournaments
I’m not going to mince words: Daigo Umehara is the greatest fighting game player of all time. His legacy added a new footnote over the weekend when he dominated a stacked Street Fighter V tournament. And it’s strange that folks still managed to be shocked by the results. Umehara faced down several incredible Street Fighter…
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CultureMassive Star Fox Leaks Include Crystal-Clear ‘Do A Barrel Roll’ And Slippy’s Angelic Voice
The internet was recently set ablaze by a dump of Nintendo assets known as the “Gigaleak.” This batch includes incredible finds, like early Yoshi prototypes and even Luigi files in Super Mario 64. But my favorite part has been hearing the Star Fox 64 cast speak with crystal-clear clarity via new digital audio files. The…
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CultureIt’s True: Luigi Really Is In Super Mario 64, And Fans Are Thrilled
For nearly two and a half decades, Nintendo fans have been trying to verify that Mario’s brother Luigi was somehow hidden away in the files of Nintendo 64 classic Super Mario 64. Thanks to this weekend’s so-called “Gigaleaks”, Luigi’s Mario 64 files have been verified, finally proving one of the longest-running gaming myths to be…
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CultureKotaku Game DiaryHalo: The Master Chief Collection Is So Fun Right Now
I’ve played Halo: The Master Chief Collection off and on—more off than on—since it released in 2014. The serious connectivity issues that persisted well past launch were one thing, but the game also hit that fun wall all first-person shooters hit. Sometimes it takes months or years, but the run-of-the-mill players always abandon ship for…
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CultureCall of Duty’s Warzone Teasers Hint At Map Changes
Cryptic teasers from Infinity Ward reveal that an upcoming live event could drastically change the landscape of Warzone, including the demolition of the map’s worst landmark. Since launch in early March, Call of Duty: Warzone’s map has seen minimal visual changes, but a series of teases about the game’s upcoming season has fans speculating about…
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CultureStar Fox 2 Almost Had A Black Female Pilot With Incredible Hair, And I. Am. Smitten.
One drip of information in the deluge coming from Nintendo’s latest “Gigaleak” was source code and unused assets for Star Fox 2, including a never-before-seen human character. Completed in 1995, Nintendo shelved the game out of fear it’d look inferior to the next-gen graphics of the PlayStation. (The game was subsequently released as an unlockable…
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EsportsFastest-Ever Overwatch League Match Is 19 Minutes and 23 Seconds of Misery
The fastest match in Overwatch League history took place over the weekend, with last year’s champions, the San Francisco Shock, beating the brakes off the Vancouver Titans in a blisteringly fast match that ran just 19 minutes and 23 seconds. The extremely brief match surpassed a record set just the week before when the Los…
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CultureGhost of Tsushima Patch Adds Higher Difficulty, ‘Lower Intensity Combat’ Setting
Ghost of Tsushima receives a few game-changing options in a new update today. The 1.05 patch will include a new difficulty level, a new combat accessibility setting, and some additional options for the game’s text. The new difficulty level is called Lethal, and it sounds exactly like that: Enemies are both more aggressive and more…
By Ari Notis
